Greg McKeown Quotes

17 quotes in 283 categories

• The ability to choose cannot be taken away or even given away-it can only be forgotten.
• Essentialism is not about how to get more things done, it's about how to the get the right things done. It doesn't mean just doing…
• Remember that if you don’t prioritize your life someone else will.
• We often think of choice as a thing. But a choice is not a thing. Our options may be things, but a choice—a choice is…
• There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once…
• We overvalue nonessentials like a nicer car or house, or even intangibles like the number of our followers on Twitter or the way we look…
• The way of the Essentialist means living by design, not by default. Instead of making choices reactively, the Essentialist deliberately distinguishes the vital few from…
• Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest…
• If I didn’t already own this, how much would I spend to buy it?
• The word priority was singular for 500 years—what does priorities mean—'many many first things.'
• I think we are in a non-essentialist bubble—everything seems important—so of course nothing is.
• If it isn't a clear yes, then it's a clear no.
• I think we’ve been oversold the value of more and undersold the value of less.
• Discern the vital few from the trivial Many.
• I'd rather be honest and lose than be dishonest and win
• The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular…
• Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration.

Browse Greg McKeown Quotes by Category